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...most pressing item on Stone??s list was getting final city approval for the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS)—a pair of buildings planned to unite the Department of Government and its related centers, a project that had topped the agenda of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) for a half a dozen years...
...through public property beneath a city street, Harvard would need explicit permission from the Cambridge City Council, a group which tends to favor city residents—and which had often and publicly expressed their frustration with the University administration in general and for Stone??s predecessor in particular...
City Council members say Stone??s direct involvement in the negotiations and Harvard’s willingness to change some of its plans represented progress in the rocky relationship between the University and the city...
Within weeks of Stone??s arrival last year, the University had permits for everything but the tunnel...
...Stone??s predecessor, Grogan—who was brought in to mend Harvard’s ties to Boston and is currently president of the Boston Foundation—says he felt Cambridge activists and city councillors were “utterly unsympathetic” to Harvard’s needs during his tenure as vice president...